Name of Maker: Jill McConville

Jerry and Shari's Wedding Quilt - This quilt isn't quilted yet, but is on the calendar for July. This will be a wedding gift for my brother who is getting married in September. (Finally) They have watched me make many quilts for my nieces. This will be their first quilt. The colors represent their birthstones. What a beautiful combination!

Name of Maker: Mary Keasler

Spring Riot - A challenge requiring a season of the year & trying a technique never used. Based on my photographs, I drew my own design & attempted machine trapunto, and free motion embroidery, along with machine applique.

Name of Maker: Lisa Kershner

Name of Maker: Ann Bates

Elegant Sue - My Mother made a "Dutch Doll" quilt out of my little dresses when I was a small child.
I traced over the pattern in the quilt and used my own idea as to how to dress each
girl. I used heart material for their skits and solids for the other accessories. I used
machine embrodiery and other types of embellishments

Name of Maker: Bernice Ulm

Little Things - Butterflies on Patch Work
Wall hanging was constructed for our quilt guild hot august night challenge, which was "favorit little things". I love butterflies so of course that was my favorit little thing. I did a patach work of 3 inch squares and appliqued the butterflies on. I used hot crystals as flowers and embroided the stems from the main branchs to the hot crystals. The lady bugs are buttons and the snail is appliquet with embroided accents. This was my first try at machine quilting. The wall hanging did win the challenge.

Name of Maker: Suzanne Michelle Hyland

Summer Succulents - The beautiful symmetry of succulent leaves inspired this design. The original photo of the Aeonium succulent is green. Quilt is machine appliquéd and quilted with metallics, embroidery, and other specialty threads on a Handi Quilter HQ-16.

Name of Maker: Judy Liebo

Healing Heart - I started this because I needed some hand work while on a 3 month overseas vacation. I finished it sitting by my mother's bedside while she was recovering from open heart surgery. UPDATE: Ironically, this quilt will be featured on June 15th which is my mother's 90th birthday and once again I am sitting by her hospital bedside (10 years later) as she is losing her battle with heart disease.

Name of Maker: Janie Stokes

Going Batty - The pattern intrigues me because it is Hawaiian style but it had bats. Before I retired from 35 years of teaching elementary school, one of my favorite units to teach was on bats and I collected bat things. The quilting around the bats says chiroptera (which is the scientific name for bats) and bat sayings. I chose the fabric to look like bats flying over water at night.